Escapers were the cream of the crop.

Jack had been the love of her life and he was gone. It seemed now that there had never been bad times, though she knew that wasn’t true.

Vesta was so good with paperwork – you could hand her a file of drab, seemingly dull information and she’d construct a story from it worthy of a novel.

Didn’t young people care what the generation before them had achieved? And if not, why had everyone gone through those grim difficult wartime years?

It was nearly ten years since the peace though her memories of the war still felt fresh.

Covert operations relied on the unguarded slip, the unconscious choosing of one word over another.

The good thing about the aristocracy – German or English – was that they were easily traced, Mirabelle thought.

This investigation felt difficult, like driving in fog.

Mirabelle was always an enigma, and he had the sense that if he pushed her, she’d bolt.

Food in wartime Britain, she had to admit, was hardly inspiring.

A chap’s impending death has a way of focusing the mind.

I love books. I like that the moment you open one and sink into it you can escape from the world, into a story that's way more interesting that yours will ever be.

In prayer, God doesn't guarantee the answer you want, but He does guarantee the answer you need.

Sometime when we're not looking for what we want, we find what we need.

Software is the magic thing whose importance only goes up over time.

But men must know, that in this theatre of man's life it is reserved only for God and angels to be lookers on.

He who can turn negative situations into something positive, has learned the law of transformation, his mind empowers life.

If you create your life with love, your dream becomes a masterpiece of art.

I stand ready to lead us down a different path where we're lifted up by our desire to succeed, not dragged down by a resentment of success.

I think mostly the commodifying comes after I've done something that has some other value to me.

We must now understand that our own well-being can be achieved only through the well-being of the entire natural world around us.